Final Wicket: Test & First-Class Cricketers Killed in the Great War

Final Wicket: Test & First-Class Cricketers Killed in the Great WarDescription By Nigel McCrery Paperback While cricket remains popular today, at the beginning of the 20th Century it was THE national game. Cricketers were the sporting icons of their age, as footballers are today. When the call to arms was made in 1914 and the years of war that followed, it was answered in droves by young men, including Test and First Class cricketers. The machine guns and gas of the Western Front and other theatres did not

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and key artifacts that illustrate the war and its changing technologies

and the secrets from her own past must be faced for her to truly have a future beyond the conflict--if she can survive it

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Particularly important was the General Board's role in implementing the Washington Naval Treaty that limited naval armaments after 1922

often facing mob violence

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